Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:03:00 -0500 From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> To: David Varieur <davar@mwvcaa.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unwanted XFree86 stuff in 4.7 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20021022100300.014efb90@mail.sage-one.net> In-Reply-To: <20021022075104.45954fdb.davar@mwvcaa.org> References: <3.0.5.32.20021022094205.014efb90@mail.sage-one.net> <3.0.5.32.20021022094205.014efb90@mail.sage-one.net>
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At 07:51 AM 10.22.2002 -0700, David Varieur wrote: >On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 09:42:05 -0500 >"Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> wrote: > >> On all of the production boxes, I am running 4.5-RELEASE p-20 and have been >> waiting to take the plunge on 4.7 after it settled down. Last night I >> installed 4.7-RELEASE from an ISO on a test box. While the install went >> smoothly, I noticed that a bunch of "XFree...." stuff is installed even >> though I don't use nor want to run an "X" server, if this is what "XFree" >> pertains to. Further, the first thing I did after the ISO install was to >> CVSup and then found that a number of ports "needed updating" all related >> to "XFree...". It's taking a HUGE amount of time to update things because >> of this unwanted XFree stuff. None of this XFree stuff is on my 4.5 boxes. >> First concern was I noticed the "f" version of cvsup-without-gui install >> took a looonnnnggg time. >> > >Did you install cvsup-without-gui? If not, you installed the GUI version which requires X. > Yes, I did.... see above about the looonnnnggg time at bottom. I always choose without gui. I just ran "pkg_deinstall -Ri XFree86" and removed all of the "X" port stuff and nothing has crashed yet. Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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